Shape Modeling of Musculoskeletal Structures and Its Applications
Fig. 1 Transformation of a human into a rhinoceros head is made possible through the representation of shapes in a common shape space Is is obvious that the details of the…
Cost-Effective Surgical Navigation Solution for Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO) Surgery
Fig. 1 The three rotations necessary to describe full 3D orientation. The IMU outputs the rotation around the Earth-fixed reference coordinate system’s x-, y- and z-axis The fusion of the data…
of the Art of Ultrasound-Based Registration in Computer Assisted Orthopedic Interventions
Fig. 1 Typical example of involved components in an ultrasound-based surgical navigation system: B-mode ultrasound probe, infrared tracking camera (=navigator), surgical tool (here: impactor), the therapeutic object (here: pelvis) to be…
Reconstruction-Based Planning of Total Hip Arthroplasty
mm (maximum 4.7 mm) with 95 % confidence interval of 1.7 mm. They also found that there was no significant difference in each of their analyzed parameters (
Robotics for Musculoskeletal Surgery
Fig. 1 Medical robots for musculoskeletal surgery Major clinical application of robotic systems is arthroplasty. Now, there are two commercially available robotic systems; one is ROBODOC (Curexo Thechnology Corp., Fremont, California)…
Assisted Diagnosis and Treatment Planning of Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)
Fig. 1 The different pathomorphologies and pathobiomechanics of intraarticular FAI are shown. Top Normal hip with sufficient clearance for range of motion. Bottom left Pincer impingement: early contact of the femoral…
Assisted Hip Resurfacing Using Patient-Specific Instrument Guides
Fig. 1 Depth of the resection of the proximal head to allow for the femoral component thickness Although the published results for offset and leg-length changes following HRA are often significantly…
for Orthopaedic Interventions
Fig. 1 Characteristics of rigid registration spatial errors: a corresponding points (1a–2a, 1b–2b) before registration; after registration b error only in translation, c error only in rotation. In both cases it…
Augmented Reality Based Orthopaedic Interventions
Fig. 1 Clinical IGS scene Augmented reality (AR), which can improve accuracy of the decision-making in IGS, is a visualization technique to merge virtual computer-generated images into real surgical scene seamlessly…
Reality in Orthopaedic Interventions and Education
Fig. 1 The camera augmented mobile C-arm. The mobile C-arm is extended by an optical camera and mirror construction Fig. 2 CamC implicitly registers X-ray images (upper-left) and video images (lower-left) to…
